Folding-bed stand



J. P. BATTEN.

FOLDING BED STAND.

APPLICATION FILED APR.3,1920.

Patented Oct. 12, 1920; 7

UNITED STATES 7 JAMES P. BATTEN, 0F SAWTELLE, CALIFORNIA.

FOLDING-BED STAND.

Application filed April 3, 1920.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES P. BATTEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sawtelle, in the county of Los Angeles, State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in F olding- Bed Stands; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to beds, and more especially to those which fold; and the object of the same is to produce a stand or pedestal for pivotally sup-porting the head portion of a bed frame in such manner that the bed can be let down to horizontal position for use or can be raised to upright position and stood against the wall, when it will 0ccupy very little space.

The improved bed stand forming the subject matter of this invention is described below in connection with a bed frame and its mattress such as are usually employed in structures wherein they fold into a cabinet or the like. Reference is made to the drawings wherein: p

Figure 1 is an edge view of this structure showing the bed let down in full lines and raised in dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is an elevation of the stand, showing the bed frame in dotted lines.

In the drawings the letter B designates the bed frame carrying a mattress M which doubtless will be held thereon by straps, the foot of the bed being sustained by hinged legs L resting on the floor F and the head H of the bed standing near the wall W so that the structure can be used as seen in full lines in Fig. 1.

The head portion of this bed is sustained by a stand or pedestal constructed and attached to the bed frame in a detailed manner for purposes more fully explained below.

Mounted on casters 1 is a base 2 from sixteen to eighteen inches in diameter, and rising from the center of the base is a standard 3 such as a piece of pipe. Its upper Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 12, 1920.

Serial No. 371,039. 0

end is screwed into a T-coupling 4, and from the arms of the latter extend horizontal pipe sections 5. On the standard 3 near the base is a coupling 6 and on the outer ends of the sections 5 are other couplings 7, these couplings being connected by two oblique braces 8, also preferably of pipe. The side rails of the bed frame B, indicated at 10 in Fig. 2, have secured to their under sides straps 11 provided with loops 12 which inclose the pipe sections 5 so that the bed frame is hingedly mounted thereon, and the point of such hinging is about sixteen inches from the head H of the bed, and a trifle more than sixteen inches from the upper face of the base, whereas the latter if it is sixteen inches in diameter has a radius of only ei ht inches.

. t results that the bed may be let down for use as seen in Fig. 1 in full lines, or may be turned on its hinges 12 to a substantially upright position as seen in dotted lines, and then pushed against the wall W, and if we assume that the frame 10 and mattress and bed clothing M have an aggregate thickness of say five inches, itwill be clear that when the edge of the base strikes the wall W the top of the bed clothing will stand very near the wall, and thus the bed when out of use will occupy a limited amount of space. It

might even be possible to push it into a doorway, assuming that the door into the next room was not being used. The casters permit the structure to be moved about as desired, and permit the same to be drawn out from the wall a little in the evening when the bed is to be turned down for use. The straps 11 and loops 12 constitute hinges which of course can be attached by ordinary screws to the under side of the rails 10 of an ordinary wooden-bed frame, or by bolts to the rails of a metal bed frame, and therefore the device can be sold as an article of manufacture and applied by the owner to the bed he already possesses.

What is claimed is:

In a folding bed, the combination with a bed frame, and hinges secured beneath its Side rails at a distance from its head; of a tance from said line to the head of the bed stand including a fiat circular base mounted frame and the diameter of said base being on casters, a single standard rising thereless than either. from a horizontal bar centrally supported In testimony whereof I affix my signature 5 across the top of(1 the sitlzandagdliand having in the presence of two Witnesses.

its encs en a e wit sai in 'es an e V braces from th e lower end of the gtahdard JAMES BATTEN' to the outer ends of said bar, the distance Witnesses: from a line through the hinges to the upper CARL BRANDT,

10 face of said base being greater than the dis- ERNEST H. PHELPS. 

